64 XLVII. § PAPILIONACEE (BAKER). [ Lotus, 
o, shagery, the lan- 
ceolate teeth reaching more than three-quarters of the way down to 
the base. Corolla reddish, equalling the calyx, anthers not quite 
uniform. Pod 2 in. long, under a line thick, straight, linear, glabrous, 
about 6-seeded.—Ononis Aucheri, Jaub. et Spach. Illust. i. 96. 
Nile Land. Banks of the White Nile, Kotschy! 
A desert species, extending eastward to Scinde, with the habit of an Ononis, and re- 
ceding from the typical Zoti by its anthers, which are alternately fastened quite at the 
base, and slightly versatile. 
copious, sessile, solitary, axillary. Calyx j in. long 
16. PSORALEA. Linn.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. i. 491. 
Calyx-teeth in our plant subequal. Petals equal or the keel shorter; 
standard ovate or orbicular, unguiculate; wings oblong subfaleate ; 
keel incurved, obtuse. Upper stamen free or more or less connate, the 
tube in an early stage often closed; anthers small, uniform or the 
alternate ones slightly different. Ovary sessile or short-stalked, 
l-ovulate ; style filiform, or dilated at the base, upcurved; stigma ter- 
minal. Pod ovate or oblong indehiscent, the pericarp adhering to the 
seed.—Herbs or undershrubs with glandulose-punctate leaves and 1, 
3, or many pinnate leaflets, the flowers in heads or spikes or racemes, 
rarely solitary. 
A large genus, principally Cape, South American, and Australian. 
Leaves pinnately trifoliolate, flowers in axillary racemes. 
A low spiny shrub Deh oe ee 1. P. plicata. 
An unarmed prostrate herb). 5k i ee i ws 9B obtuse 
Leaves simple ; flowers in dense stalked terminal heads. . . . 3. P. andongensis. 
1. P. plicata, Del.; DC. Prod. ii. 221. A low shrub with striated 
Lelen woody stems, copious erecto-patent rigid branches and spiny 
ranchlets. Leaves pinnately trifoliolate, the petioles 1-3? in. long, 
terminal leaflet {—-3 in. long, half as broad, oblong, deeply crenate, 
lateral ones smaller, firm, both sides coated with fine silvery pubes- 
cence. Flowers m copious short-stalked axillary racemes of 6-12 
flowers each. Pedicels very short. Calyx tubular, 14-2 lines long, 
10-nerved, silvery, the teeth deltoid, not reaching a quarter of the way 
down, the lower one rather narrower and deeper, the tube dilated when 
the fruit is produced. Corolla cream-coloured, scarcely exceeding the 
calyx, Pod villose, ultimately black, equalling the calyx. 
North Central. Banks of Lake Tschad, LZ. Vogel! 
Wile Land. Banks of the Nile in Nubia, Kotschy! Ehrenb Bromfield! and 
gathered also by Speke and Grant! y irenberg, Bromfie 
2. P. obtusifolia, DC. Prod. ii, 221. A finely-silky copiously- 
branched prostrate perennial herb with stems 1-2 ft. lone. Petioles 
spreading, 6—10 lines. Leaflets 3, obovate-cuneate, rather fleshy, 
blunt, crenato-repand, both sides green, finely erey-silky, the centra 
one distinctly stalked, obscurely punctate, 6—9 lines long. Flowers 4— 
in copious short-stalked dense axillary spikes. Calyx 14 lines long; 
densely white-silky, the lanceolate teeth shorter than the tube. Corolla 
bright yellow, slightly exceeding the calyx. Pod sessile, ovate 
